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There were indications yesterday that leader of
the Boko Haram insurgents, Abubakar Shekau,
may have been captured in Borno State.
Unconfirmed reports said Shekau was nabbed
by the ‘king of hunters’ around Gafa Mountain
in Borno State.
Efforts to get official confirmation from the
military failed, but a key source told Daily Sun
Aproko on phone that speculation about
Shakau’s capture had been on for over a
week. He however, revealed that troops of the
Nigerian Army fighting in the area had
surround the Gafa Mountain area last week
over intelligence report that top Boko Haram
leaders were hiding there.
The source said that with the cordon thrown
around the area, there was no way Shekau and
others would leave the place alive or without
being captured.
Severally, the Nigerian military had
pronounced Shekau either arrested or killed
and severally the Boko Haram leader had
bounced back alive, with YouTube video
releases.
The Nigerian military had in September 2014
said that it had subdued Boko Haram leader,
but shortly after that statement he appeared
in a new video denouncing moves by the
Nigerian Army to eliminate him.
On May 12, 2014, the DSS, through its former
spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar, insisted that the
man in the videos released by the sect was
not the real Shekau.
She had stated: “Boko Haram has become a
franchise; anybody can assume and lay claim
to any name. What I know is that the original
Abubakar Shekau is dead; the person claiming
to be the national leader now is not the
original Abubakar Shekau.”
Earlier this year, the Nigerian Army had
announced the death of three key
commanders of the extremist Boko Haram
sect. The army said the terrorists were killed
in a major air strike on their location in the
dreaded Sambisa Forest.
The spokesperson for the Army, Sani Usman,
said Shekau was also inflicted with “fatal
injury” during the operation.
According to him, the bombardment was
carried out on Friday while Shekau, who the
Nigerian military had pronounced dead several
times in the past years, was leading his group
in performing the Friday prayers at a secret
location called Tayye, in the heart of the vast
forest.
[color =red]OUR UNRELIABLE APROKO[/color] reports a military
source told him that Shekau has either
become a vampire or a chieftaincy title given
to Boko Haram leaders but whatever he is we
will continue to capture and kill him till the
end of time.
